RE: [xsl] Newbie - Trying to read in a value with XSL ...

["Weakliem, Gordon" <Gordon.Weakliem@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Two problems:
1) select="/" won't select comment nodes.  Try <xsl:for-each
select="comment()" >.  
2) Your code:
   Set root = source.documentElement
   Set newNode = source.createNode (8, "PAGE_FROM", "")
   newNode.nodevalue = "YES"
   root.appendChild(newNode)
Appends the new node below root, i.e. 

<root><child/></root>

becomes

<root><child/><!--YES--></root>

> When I try the node type of text, I get a concatenated list 
> of all values
> (too many), with element I get nothing and with comment I get nothing.

What's your context at the point you're doing the select?  If your comment
is a child of the current node, comment() will find it.  In other words,
given the simple document above, either of the following will work:

<!-- example 1 -->
  <xsl:template match="root">
	<tr>
	 <xsl:for-each select="comment()" >
	 <td>
	 <xsl:value-of select="."/>
	 </td>
	 </xsl:for-each>
	</tr>
  </xsl:template>

<!-- Example 2, I like this one better -->
  <xsl:template match="root">
	<tr>
	<xsl:apply-templates select="comment()" />
	</tr>
  </xsl:template>  

  <xsl:template match="comment()">
	<td>
	 <xsl:value-of select="."/>
	</td>
  </xsl:template>

OK, I've just spent way too much time on an MSXML 2.5 problem.  The best
solution is to tell your vendor to upgrade their product.  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Melissa Mussitsch [mailto:melissa.mussitsch@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2001 10:03 AM
> To: 'XSL-List@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
> Subject: [xsl] Newbie - Trying to read in a value with XSL ...
> 
> 
> Hi,
> I know very little about XSL and even XML for that matter.  My company
> purchased a product which uses the XSL functionality from the version
> http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-xsl.
> I need to make a modification and am having trouble.  
> Basically I'm trying
> to pass a variable from my asp page to the XSL page, but 
> since I'm using
> this older version, I can't utilize the xsl:param object (to 
> my knowledge).
> I decided that I would create a new node on the asp side and 
> refer to that
> node on the xsl side.
> My code on the asp side is as follows:
> 
> dim styleFile
> styleFile = Server.MapPath("web_leads_survey.xsl")
>   
>   ' Load the XML 
>   dim source
>   set source = Server.CreateObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM")
>   source.async = false
>   source.loadxml( sXML )
> 
>   Set root = source.documentElement
> 'I keep playing with different node types here trying to get 
> them to work
> ... tried element, text, comment
>   Set newNode = source.createNode (8, "PAGE_FROM", "")
>   newNode.nodevalue = "YES"
>   root.appendChild(newNode)
>   
>   ' Load the XSL
>   dim style
>   set style = Server.CreateObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM")
>   style.async = false
>   style.load(styleFile)
> 
>   Response.Write(source.transformNode(style))
> 
> This is working properly - I get a node of name #comment with 
> value "YES".
> My problem is referring to that node and value from XSL.  The 
> code I tried
> is below:
> 
> <tr>
> <xsl:for-each select="/" >
> <td>
> <xsl:value-of select="."/>
> </td>
> </xsl:for-each>
> </tr>
> 
> As you can see it's not much - but the pattern matching is 
> not working.
> When I try the node type of text, I get a concatenated list 
> of all values
> (too many), with element I get nothing and with comment I get nothing.
> I tried using the <xsl:template match ...> which I've seen in 
> many examples
> but this generates an error message, perhaps because of my version.
> 
> Can anyone help - I've been working on this for a day and a 
> half and really
> only have examples in internet doc searches to go on?
> 
> Thanks
> Melissa
> melissa.mussitsch@xxxxxxxxx
> 
> 
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